Bernini: Impresario

A lecture on sculptor, painter and playwright Gian Lorenzo Bernini by Franco Mormando of Boston College. Mormando is the author of the first Englih biography of Bernini, Bernini: His life and His Rome. Via Salon/Sanctuary Concerts:

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Bernini’s artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings and other works of his design that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall in our own time.

This lecture is the opening event of “Bernini in Paris: Italian Guests in the Sun King’s Court.” Three concerts will take place on Feb. 25, Feb. 28 and March 3. See the calendar.